SOLO Taxonomy and
Questions, Questioners, Questioning
Julie Mills and Pam Hook
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“Once you have learned how to ask
relevant and appropriate questions,
you have learned how to learn and
no one can keep you from learning
whatever you want or need to know.”
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“…. the greatest invention since
the birth of mankind is the
question.” (Witte 2001)
“…… as teachers, the
first thing we steal from our
children is their questions.”
(Edwards 2001)
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“Going in search of student
questions is like travelling into a
linguistic Serengeti”
(Hook 2003)
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How does “doing school”
discourage questioning?
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Never mind what’s Sanctifying
Grace! That’s none of your
business. You are here to learn the
catechism and do what you are
told. You are not here to be
asking questions.
Angela’s Ashes
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How can we develop student
questioning, student questioners,
and student questions?
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Helping students become better
questioners requires:
• Contexts for Questioning
• Dispositions for Questioners
• Frameworks for Questions
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Contexts for Questioning
Why do you value student
questioning in your
learning community?
In society and in schools the
questioner is oftentimes
marginalised as a trouble
maker and maverick ...
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Dispositions for Questioners
How do you value student
questioning behaviours in your
learning community?
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Self Assessment Rubric for
Asking Questions
I can ask anyone relevant and
appropriate questions when
seeking answers, and I can
reflect on my questioning.
Self and peer I can ask my family, friends,
teacher and people I don't
know, like experts, relevant/
assessment rubrics appropriate questions when
seeking answers
coded against I can ask my family, friends,
classmates and teachers
SOLO Taxonomy questions when seeking answers
I can ask my family and close
friends questions when seeking
answers
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Frameworks for Questions
How can you design a
questioning curriculum?
How can you design a
developmental sequence of
questioning frameworks to
build student expertise in
making questions?
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Student questions
change with different
questioning frameworks.
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SOLO Taxonomy and HOT Maps
as a Questioning Framework.
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Self Assessment Rubrics for
Formulating Questions
I can make questions that
go beyond the subject and
make links to other
concepts.
Self and peer I can make questions that
link information relevant to
assessment rubrics the subject
coded against SOLO
Taxonomy I can make questions that
bring in more than one idea
relevant to the subject.
I can make questions that
bring in one idea relevant
to the subject.
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julie (AT) hooked-on-thinking (DOT) com
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